Hi, > > > One of my holdback with FuzzyOCR is that you have to provide an > > independant word list, while we have a very good tool to analyze text > > contents: SpamAssassin itself. So I would much prefer FuzzyOCR to feed > > the OCR'ed text back to SA for further analysis (the way pdfAssassin > > is working). > > That works as long as the OCR remains very accurate. What happened > before was that the deployment of OCR lead spammers to make their text > much less readable.
Agreed 100%, we need a way to test the accuracy of the OCRed text before feeding it to SA. Or have part of the obfuscation tests disabled. > > As for your question about the place for image scanning, if your MTA > > has the resources to do so, why not? > > Because it's better if it's combined with other information. That is the way I meant it, it's an AND, not an OR. I see FuzzyOCR as just one more tool that can be added to SA. Regards, Olivier
